New York's highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 felony sex crime charges, reversing a decision in the case that catalyzed the #MeToo movement. New York's Court of Appeals determined that the judge who oversaw the disgraced Hollywood producer's previous trial allowed testimony from witnesses whose allegations were not part of the charges brought against Weinstein, and permitted prosecutors to question the producer about uncharged allegations, as noted by the New York Times.
This "reversible error" by the trial judge serves as the grounds for the overturning, as noted by MSNBC's Katie Phang on X/Twitter. Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis cited in a tweet how "prior bad acts were allowed into evidence that were not charged and that evidence of prior sexual crimes served no material non-propensity purpose."
